How Much Art Can One Child Create?

It is amazing how many art projects one child can do. Almost everyday he comes home with something he has created. Being a good mom, I can't just throw it away so I add it to the bin downstairs with all his other projects. I would look at this overflowing bin every once in a while and wonder how I was going to decide which projects to throw away as we can't keep everything. We would have a bin for every school year, 13 including kindergarten, if we kept everything. I finally came up with a great solution. I pulled out the bins and sat down with my son. I simply told him it was time to go through all of his projects and decide which ones he wanted to keep and which ones we could throw away. To my surprise, he did a great job going through everything and decided to keep about half. Then I went through the ones he wanted to throw away and pulled out a couple that I really liked and wanted to keep. It took us a good hour to go through last year's projects but we had a lot of fun. We talked about the different projects and how he made them. I would then ask him why he wanted to keep the projects he put in the "keep" pile. It made for brilliant and interesting conversation. It never ceases to amaze me how their minds work. I was very happy with the outcome of our "art project cleanup" as I not only was able to throw out projects guilt free but I also spent a wonderful hour with my son. It will be an annual ritual in our family.